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I can say I am seeing a bit of the same out where I am, though at the same time I am lucky in I'm seeing a selection of local operators whom are supporting the project as well. Out here in San Diego where we have a significant terrain problem we are going with trying to get a backbone built first that we can feed off of to provide more localized access. This makes it s lot more like a typical repeater build in theory if you can find a high site that can feed out to lower level feeder nodes whom than provide acess out to users. We still have to proceed and see how well this works out, but that is our concept right now out here. Once we have the backbone than it becomes s bit more of a build out and areas that want/need the network can invest. The other item I see a lot of is explaining what can be done with the network, to many it is not obvious what benefit they have by moving to it, I think the key to this will be finding some unique content. I've been thinking of things like recording of meeting videos that may only be available via the mesh until they are a year old for those whom can't make club meetings, project documentation, etc. I also suspect in our local case convincing the CERT (Community Emegrncy Response Team) and the other users of Winlink (send s 1mb file that should cause an issue) in our case will be where some of the build out will be. Thought his is all speculation at this point we will have to wait and see how it actually plays out. |
